April: theme Spring

For this months mail art exchange, Ylanka came up with the theme Spring.

These envelopes are made by Ivy:
 A spring envelope made in soft green and yellow with butterflies and a dragon fly.

Scraps of paper in pink and with spring blossoms, pieces of tape with birds, paper cut outs of dragonflies and over it a skeleton leave with a layer of mod podge.

Made of all pieces of paper scraps in happy spring colours. ,ribbon, tape and a picture of little ducklings.

The next envelope I used a spring illustration from a childrens book in combination with some happy pattern paper, ribbon, and over the envelope I glued a skeleton leave with modpodge.

These lovely envelopes are made by Karen, she cut lots of tulip heads out of  paper.
A very nice idea and the result is gorgeous, very artistic.
She also made her own postcard with the same tulip heads.

The following and very artistic spring envelopes are made by Nathalie,
The first, also with tulips, which I love! .It is very Dutch,tulips, cows and stamps from Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
She used newspaper to cut out the tulips and then painted them with acrylic paint,   and she has done that very well, beautiful!
I also like the edges with the pretty masking tape.

 And also the back side is pretty again:

The second envelope:

Also very beautiful, the name is written on a cloud behind a little painted branch with blossom flowers and a little bird cut out of a magazine. Lots of detail, really pretty.

 And of course a pretty backside again with a painted rainbow and a quote of the dutch Loesje:
Give me a winter jumper with spring flowers on it, LOL
Loesje is very famous and does lots of great quotes.

 The third and very artistic envelope:
A pretty spring scene, with a painted bench,painted grass and clouds and cut outs of frogs, birds and flowers, very sweet.
Nathalie is a very good painter! :-)

 And on the backside, snails on clouds and a kite , love it!
A lot of work and thought has gone in these envelopes.

The forth envelope:

A stunning painting of the Dutch tulips fields with a beautiful big sun at the end of it, very pretty.

and the pretty backside with 1 big tulip:

 This envelope is made by Dasha, she used lovely pastel blue and purple colors 

and has drawn a very cute couple of birdies on the envelope. 

The envelope is made of pretty paper with little blue flowers. Spring feeling! 

This one is also made by Dasha: lots of confetti, flowers and a spirograph flower, I have not used a spirograph since I was a child. They are great tools to make wonderful shapes and figures.

 and a drawing on the backside with Russian? words on it.

This envelope is made by Laura, with very cute stickers of Beatrix Potter, who doesn`t love Peter Rabbit. Also nice soft yellow spring color and a paper flower added, very cute envelope!

mail a smile challenge

Mail a smile is a wonderful project by Jenny and Micu, of sending mail art to people who are in need of a smile.
 http://mailasmile.org/about-the-project/
If you sign up with them, at the beginning of every month they will send you an address with a profile of somebody who needs a smile.
 

The following Mail art was for the month March:
A cup of coffee or tea:

 And this one is for the month April:
Music, playing an instrument.
The father of the receiver was a saxophone player.